The mildly mixed up musings of a crochet fanatic!

Friday Offerings - An Angry Bird and Happy Feet

6/29/2012

I had a lot of fun making this angry bird!

I'll admit that I have never played this game, and that I really know nothing about it at all. Except that it lends itself to a very fun hat that easily brings a smile to your face! Sue at SusanD1408 Crochet Addict creates these wonderful character hats, and a few weeks ago I offered to test this one for her. If you're interested in making your own, you can find the pattern for sale here. It's a snap to make and I'm sure would make any of the little (and medium) people in your life very happy!

In addition to my fiber offerings on Friday, I've started to participate in Five Minute Friday over at Lisa-Jo Bakers place. It's writing in the raw and if you've never done why don't you give it a try? It's really easy - you just:
1. Write for 5 minutes flat on the prompt: “Dance” with no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community..

Here's what happened when I spent five minutes on Dance:

Listen to the music.

Can you feel the beat?

Happy feet. Ballet. Swing. Jitterbug, Waltz, Tango, Ballroom.

I see the people dancing. Laughing, smiles on their faces. How can you feel bad when the music is pulsing through your body, loud and full of energy?

I dance in my kitchen. To a rhythm that is my own. Usually with the music that plays in the sound track of my life. I don’t dance very often and now that I am thinking about it I really should.

Let myself go, and get lost in the spirit of the moment.

But life doesn’t always lend itself to dance. Sometime it’s more like crawl. I don’t want those moments to be the ones that dominate.

Listen to the music.

Dance like no one is watching! Freely and just for the fun of it. I bet that I’ll feel better!

I do already.

And there you have it. This week I didn't give myself any time to think about it or to organize my thoughts at all. Surprisingly when I relaxed and set my fingers to the keys the words just started to flow!

Friday is a great day for visiting on the web. Why don't you join me?
Until next time friends,
Be blessed and stitch and read with love!

16 Comments

Tereasa link

6/29/2012 12:50:59 am

I do! I dance like no one is looking... well, when no one is looking. ;)

Linda Stoll link

6/29/2012 01:06:49 am

... love the idea of dancing in the kitchen!

Angeliki link

6/29/2012 01:38:51 am

Hi Robin! Your angry bird hat looks amazing! Makes the perfect gift for a small friend! I love dancing too and was attending ballet lessons for 8 years in the past. Dancing is liberating and a great exercise!
Thanks for becoming our weather station's fan! You made us extremely happy! (My dad and me)
Keep creating and have a wonderful Friday,
Angeliki

Richard Rose link

6/29/2012 01:50:28 am

Love the Angry Bird Hat. I keep thinking I should make a few special hats for my shop but with so many projects on the go at the moment it's hard to justify starting more.

Wool Diaries link

6/29/2012 01:57:08 am

Love the Angry Birds hat, my boys play it, I haven't. Might be tempted to get the pattern

Voie de Vie link

6/29/2012 05:54:46 am

Love, love, love the angry bird! Nice response to this week's five minute prompt, too. We all need to dance more. :)

Pumpkin link

6/29/2012 06:13:02 am

Such a great writing prompts, I kind of want to start following along too! The hat is just adorable, I love that you made the red one, red is an underloved color a lot of the time.

SusanD1408 Crochet Addict link

6/29/2012 07:13:26 am

Thank you ever so much Robin it looks fantastic. You are a fantastic pattern tester!!!!!

Jazz link

6/29/2012 09:06:20 am

Lovely hat!

WonderWhyGal link

6/29/2012 11:24:02 am

LOVE that hat. My kids adore Angry Birds. I am awful at the games. Simply Awful.

I love the 5 minute challenge. Mine might be actually writing the blog ;-)

Melissa link

6/29/2012 02:01:01 pm

Angry bird hat.....adorable. I must admit when I got my phone I played this a lot.

Sue link

6/29/2012 08:20:39 pm

funny isn't it most of my dancing, in fact all of my dancing is done in the kitchen

Tracy Rogers link

6/30/2012 10:52:41 pm

Fantastic hat, I don't play any of those games but I know lots of people that do and they'd love it!!

Loved your writing and yes I do dance around the kitchen to the radio, at least once a week :))

sandy link

7/2/2012 12:59:14 am

Love it, awesome fabric too. I need to make a couple of these. I'm always pulling my hair up...have to for work, plus I get soooooooooo hot with the hot flashes, lol. You sew the fabric onto the clip? I'm looking at a clip trying to visualize where you sew it? Do you sew to the bent portion that makes it tight?

Robin link

7/2/2012 05:21:37 am

Hi there,
So the barrette that I used actually had holes in either end where the original plastic decorative piece was attached. (It broke and I kept in around waiting for something to inspire me!) If it didn't though I would have stitched around the whole thing on either end and maybe in the middle if it looked like it needed it! I'm sure that you could use hot glue or fabric glue if you wanted! Thanks for asking and for coming by to visit!